(Don & Joy Veinot – Midwest Christian Outreach) The celebration of the resurrection of Jesus will take place for many this Sunday. For most people these days, it is more-or-less a cultural event. I don’t necessarily mean they deny that the resurrection happened, but that they believe it based on their family and church affiliations, rather than as a result of their own serious consideration of the issue. Sometimes those who do contemplate and ask the hard questions are simply told to accept the claims of the celebration “by faith.” Faith then becomes little more than a blind leap of faith or a wistful hope. But faith is not supposed to be a “blind leap.” It really is a step taken based on what we know from the past to be true. We have faith the “sun will rise” tomorrow, based on it having done so every day in the past….
We step on an elevator with every confidence (faith) that it will take us to the floor we requested based on past experience. Other life occurrences are rare or even singular events. Assassinations of US Presidents while in office is rare — it has only happened four times in our history. The beginning of the universe happened only once in all of history. There was nothing and then there was something! The creation event itself is not “normative” – it is not reproducible and so not scientifically testable. We can’t even come up with a statistical probability of the universe coming into existence. Since it only happened once, there is nothing to measure it by. Therefore, we must reach our conclusion about this event based on other questions and criteria. I like the statement in the instructions of the online quiz Historical Improbabilities:
I’d Rather Have Jesus Than A Chocolate Easter Egg by Marsha West
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